Ham. These tedious old fools!

Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.[771]

Pol. You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.[772]

Ros. [To Polonius] God save you, sir! [Exit Polonius.[773]

Guil. My honoured lord![774]

Ros. My most dear lord! 220

Ham. My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern?[775]
Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do you both?[776]

Ros. As the indifferent children of the earth.

Guil. Happy, in that we are not over-happy;[777]
On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.[777][778] 225

Ham. Nor the soles of her shoe?[779]